{
 "meta": {
  "dossier": "banks",
  "source": "Reserve Bank of India, DBIE (via the local Data Bank)",
  "vintage": "2026-10-10",
  "mock": false,
  "geo": "IND",
  "releaseDate": null,
  "revisionPolicy": "Bank-wise figures are the banks' own returns as the RBI publishes them and are not revised once printed; the Outlook's latest March is provisional and is replaced by the next edition's figure. Mergers are disclosed on the acquirer, never joined.",
  "frequency": "annual",
  "unit": "count",
  "base": "as on 31 March",
  "latestPeriod": "2026-03",
  "coverage": "How many urban co-operative banks there are, scheduled and non-scheduled, every March to 2026",
  "note": "RBI DBIE report 812, the Primary (Urban) Co-operative Banks' Outlook (statistical table), read from the local Data Bank mirror. The source's date column is empty (1 January 1970); its financial year is used. Four sub-groups (display orders 4 to 7) carry no label in either copy of the table and are left out."
 },
 "dates": [
  "2014-03-01",
  "2015-03-01",
  "2016-03-01",
  "2017-03-01",
  "2018-03-01",
  "2019-03-01",
  "2020-03-01",
  "2021-03-01",
  "2022-03-01",
  "2023-03-01",
  "2024-03-01",
  "2025-03-01",
  "2026-03-01"
 ],
 "series": {
  "non_scheduled__ucbs": {
   "name": "non_scheduled__ucbs_count",
   "label": "Non-scheduled UCBs, number of banks",
   "unit": "count",
   "group": "Number of UCBs",
   "data": [
    1538,
    1529,
    1522,
    1508,
    1497,
    1490,
    1485,
    1481,
    1462,
    1451,
    1423,
    1408,
    1389
   ]
  },
  "scheduled__ucbs": {
   "name": "scheduled__ucbs_count",
   "label": "Scheduled UCBs, number of banks",
   "unit": "count",
   "group": "Number of UCBs",
   "data": [
    51,
    50,
    52,
    54,
    54,
    54,
    54,
    53,
    52,
    51,
    49,
    49,
    51
   ]
  },
  "all__ucbs": {
   "name": "all__ucbs_count",
   "label": "All UCBs, number of banks",
   "unit": "count",
   "group": "Number of UCBs",
   "data": [
    1589,
    1579,
    1574,
    1562,
    1551,
    1544,
    1539,
    1534,
    1514,
    1502,
    1472,
    1457,
    1440
   ]
  }
 }
}